counterinsurgency

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• in Politics
  More U.S. Combat Soldiers in Afghanistan?
  U.S.Army Special Forces Counterinsurgency Efforts Continue Despite shortage on U.S. Green Beret Advisers in Afghanistan.
  by desperatelands / on Nov 3, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “counterinsurgency”

• Al-Anbar Awakening

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 613
  Via the Marine Corps University Press - Al-Anbar Awakening Volume I: American Perspectives ( U.S. Marine Corps and Counterinsurgency in Iraq ) and Al-Anbar Awakening Volume II: Iraqi Perspectives ( From Insurgency to Counterinsurgency in Iraq, 2004 - 2009 ). Volume I - American Perspectives , edited by Chief Warrant ...
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• Checkpoint stops market blast at cost of 4 dead soldiers

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 542
  Guardian: The commanding officer of two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan said today they had sacrificed their lives to thwart an attempted Taliban suicide bombing of a packed marketplace. Lance Corporal David Kirkness, 24, and Rifleman James Brown, 18, both of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died after a ...
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• The Second American Revolution: Defund and Disobey the Fascists

  
  Atlas Shrugs — Authority: 691
  (912 on the mall) The lefts anti-American  coup detat on America made possible by the first radical Marxist in the White House calls for distinctly American counter measures. Dr. Jack Wheeler has "a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer ...
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• Afghanistan, Darfur, Palestine, Sudan, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan...

  
  ce399 | research archive — Authority: 138
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• John Stanton: US Army Human Terrain System Giving Birth?

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 111
  This is John Stanton’s 21st article on the Human Terrain System, with his previous ones available here at:  1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ,  6 ,  7 ,  8 ,  9 ,  10 ,  11 ,  12 ,  13 ,  14 ,  15 ,  16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , and 20 . John sent this article a few days ago, my apologies for being late. It ...
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• Pakistans Zardari resists U.S. pressure to expand counterinsurgency operations

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 948
  Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has resisted a direct appeal from President Obama for a rapid expansion of Pakistani military operations in tribal areas and has called on the United States to speed up military assistance to Pakistani forces and to intervene more forcefully with India, its tr...
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• Afghanistan and Pakistan: on the battle for Kandahar

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 613
  Afghanistan and Pakistan: on the battle for Kandahar - Myra MacDonald, Reuters . In the vast swirl of debate about Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is worth taking the time to read this piece in the Small Wars Journal by Michael Yon about the looming battle for Kandahar and the central importance of the Arghandab ...
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• Biden Gets on Board With Afghanistan Strategy

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Not that he wasn’t before. But during the White House debate over Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy this fall, Vice President Joe Biden argued for a “Pakistan-first ” approach that tamped down U.S. troop increases in Afghanistan in favor of counterterrorism strikes in both countries and civilian aid to Pakistan. ...
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• NTM-A / CSTC-A Update Brief

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 613
  SWJ received a nice e-mail from LTG Bill Caldwell ( Frontier 6 ); Commander, NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan , as well as, Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan; that included an update brief on NTM-A / CSTC-A efforts and way ahead. Major areas and issues addressed in ...
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• USAID In War

  
  Conflict Health — Authority: 118
  C hange.org’s War and Peace blog has been posting a series on the militarization of humanitarianism in Afghanistan. It is a good series and I recommend you read it. Today’s article is from Una Vera, a good friend in the development community. Let’s hope what I am about to say doesn’t change that, because ...
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• Sometimes Success Means Success

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 673
  Yglesias is more impressed than I by Pat Langs discussion of successful and failed counter-insurgency campaigns. In particular, I think he misconstrues the objectives of many of the major counter-insurgency campaigns of the post-war colonial period: This theory of warfare [COIN] was developed by the colonial ...
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• Afghanistan - Marine Style !!!

  
  The Military Observer — Authority: 111
  In Afghanistan, Marines Live A Tough Camp LifeBy Chuck Liddy, McClatchy Newspapers((compare this to the big Army FOBs in the east-S/F!!)FOB HASSANABAD, Afghanistan — The young Marines at this outpost could be on a camping trip to Hell.The living conditions in Helmand Province, one of the worst regions for trouble in ...
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• What he said

  
  Kings of War — Authority: 525
  A good blog post should address some controversy, some point of correction, argument or disjuncture in the point another. That’s what keeps the wheel of punditry turning. Maybe it’s just because the end of term has arrived finally and I am tired of arguing. Or maybe I’m just lazy. In any event I found these two ...
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• Europe and Afghanistan

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 613
  Europe and Afghanistan - New York Times editorial. Afghanistan is not and should not be just the United States’ fight. Al Qaeda has used its sanctuaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan to plot and launch attacks on European cities. We welcome the news that some of America’s 42 military partners in Afghanistan plan ...
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• US House of Representatives approves 1.5bn dollar aid to Pak

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec. 14 (ANI): The US House of Representatives has approved 1.459-billion-dollar economic aid for Pakistan for the financial year 2010.The assistance, which will be spent under the Kerry-Lugar legislation, was approved as part of the passage of a massive 1.1 trillion-dollar State and Foreign Operations ...
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• A counterinsurgency catch and release program

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 542
  Independent: The men looked frightened. Taken in handcuffs after US Marines found caches of Kalashnikovs, bomb-making material and opium during searches of their homes in a major offensive against the Taliban, their future looked bleak. But just 48 hours later the prisoners were brought back to their village and ...
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• Anthopologists oppose counterinsurgency use of knowledge

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 428
  TIME covers the controversy in anthropology around the military’s use of social scientists in its Human Terrain Systems program. Unlike the situation in psychology, where the American Psychological Association is totally in bed with the military-intelligence establishment, anthropologists have taken an ethical ...
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• History: Benjamin Church and the Great Swamp Fight

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 139
  John Alderman was a Praying Indian who shot and killed Metacomet (also known as King Philip) in 1676 as part of an expedition led by Captain Benjamin Church. As a reward, Alderman received King Philip’s head and one hand. The rest of King Philip’s body was quartered and hung on trees. Alderman later sold ...
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• COINterinsurgency basics... and the Pentagons new map

  
  MoStFab — Authority: 492
  (You have here two posts in one. It evolved this way as I was writing it. First I planned to post something generally relevant, but altogether quite relaxed. Then I bumped into the leaked schematic plan that is apparently being used by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, forming the basis of the remaining ...
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• Will Coin work in Afghanistan?

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 106
  “After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.” ( Barack Obama ) “ They are coming already in coffins.” ( Ari Rusila ) US President Obama finally announced his new counter-insurgency (aka “Coin”) strategy in Afghanistan – which continues mostly the strategy of his ...
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